When she asked where she could breastfeed her son, she was given two options: the bathroom stall in the kids club area, or the chair near, but neither suited her. One was a bathroom (ew), and the other was in the front lobby. When she inquired about nursing in the children’s area, she was told they could not accommodate that. She was embarrassed and upset, and even though the gym has since written a letter of apology and let her know that moms absolutely can nurse in the locker room, she’s not sure she feels up to going back to that particular gym.
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Can you blame her?
There really is no harm for a child to accompany his or her mother into a gym’s locker room to nurse, and while this situation highlights locker rooms, similar exceptions may need to be considered everywhere. No, you may not want to hold your baby and breastfeed while getting dental work or while you’re on jury duty, but there really isn’t any harm in a mother nursing her kid in a gym’s locker room. Thankfully this story has a happy ending, and hopefully other gyms will notice that nursing in a locker room is A-OK.
